Mansfield Library

The Boone and Crockett Club was the United States' first hunting and big-game conservation organization. It was founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1887 and continues to this day, headquartered in Missoula, Montana. This online collection contains scans of correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and other materials dedicated to big-game conservation history.

This collection includes files used by the Chippewa Cree Tribe, and in particular the Tribal Water Resources Department, during their negotiations with the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and the Federal Negotiating Team for the Rocky Boy's Reservation to settle the Tribe's water rights claims.

The Natives of Montana Archival Project (NOMAP) includes over 65,000 pages of Bureau of Indian Affairs Records held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Scanned from the Central Classified Files (CCF), 1907-1939, this collection includes letters, reports, photographs, petitions, leases, bonds, wills, and other legal documents. The NOMAP project focused specifically on that portion of the CCF which are organized according to individual field units or jurisdictions within Montana, such as the Blackfeet Agency.

Manuscript by William G. Sheldon covering the history of the Boone and Crockett Club up to 1954.

Albert Borgmann (1937-2023) was a philosopher and professor at the University of Montana. His work examined the philosophy of society and culture, with a particular emphasis on technology. This digital collection contains a transcription of student notes from a 1979 course taught by Dr. Borgmann.

The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics’ Athletic Team Record, also known as the “Red Book,” was created and maintained by University of Montana coach George P. “Jiggs” Dahlberg. It provides in-depth information about male intercollegiate athletes at the University between 1897 and 1980.

B. Riley McClelland (1935- ) worked as a naturalist, resource management ranger, and a wildlife research biologist for the National Park Service, primarily in Glacier National Park. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Forestry at the University of Montana. His memoirs detail his career and approach to advocacy and defense of the National Park Idea.

Clarence Burns (1953- ) was a Professor of Health and Human Performance at the University of Montana from 1987-2019. His manuscript chronicles how the University of Montana’s Department of Elocution and Physical Culture (1897) evolved to become the Department of Physical Education and later the Department of Health and Human Performance.

This collection contains two expert reports discussing the history of metal mining and processing in the Upper Clark Fork watershed (Montana) written by David M. Emmons (1939- ) and submitted as evidence in lawsuits against the Atlantic Richfield Company. Emmons is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana.

Unedited partial manuscript by former University of Montana President George Dennison (1935-2017), which explores how mythology and reality intertwine in the narrative of the institution's history. He delves into each of the university's presidential administrations and analyzes how major developments in UM history unfolded within the larger context of state and national politics and events.

This collection of original architectural drawings and blueprints include the plans for most of the prominent historical buildings in Western Montana.

In 1938, Harold Wave Whicker (1895-1955) donated a collection of rare books and manuscripts to the University of Montana, where he had been a faculty member in the English Department. This digitized collection, which includes both letters and manuscripts, emphasizes British and American literature of the nineteenth century, with favorite authors including Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Thomas Carlyle, and others. 

James Blaine Yule (1884-1957) studied engineering at the University of Montana. He began working for the US Forest Service in 1911 as a forest ranger and transferred to their division of engineering in 1917. Yule pioneered the development of aerial photography and photogrammetry, both used to speed up forest mapping. He retired in 1947 as the Chief of Maps and Surveys in Region One. This biography was written by his daughter.

Unpublished manuscript by J. B. Speer (1883-1957), clerk, business officer, and, finally, controller for the University of Montana (then called Montana State University) from 1905-1953. This account provides information about acquisition of sites for expansion of the campus beyond its original 40 acres.

K. Ross Toole (1920-1981) was a professor of history at the University of Montana. In 1981, MQTV filmed his final lectures in the Montana and the West course, which he had taught for many years. Each program investigates a different part of Montana’s history.

This unpublished manuscript by Mary Brennan Clapp (1884-1966) covers the administrations of the University of Montana's first five presidents. Mary B. Clapp was the wife of university president Charles H. Clapp and a professor of English.

Patricia Goedicke (1931-2006) and Leonard Wallace Robinson (1912-1999) were authors, partners, and professors at the University of Montana. They primarily wrote poetry. This digital collection features excerpts from their literary manuscripts, journals, and correspondence. 

Richard Lee Merritt (1922-2017) was a librarian, writer, and artist born in Missoula, Montana. He attended the University of Montana before serving in the military during WWII. He later moved to San Franscico, where he lived for the rest of his life.